2003 State of the University Address
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2003 State of the University Address, given by President J. Bernard Machen on
August 26, 2003.
Category: Health & Medicine
Mental Illness Tied to Immune Defect
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A Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between immune system cells and mental illness, and points toward eventual new psychiatric treatments.
Read MoreU Psychiatry Reseachers Part of Global Collaboration that Reveals New Genetic Link for Autism
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Three University of Utah Department of Psychiatry researchers are part of an international team of scientists that has identified a novel region of the human genome that may confer susceptibility to autism.
Read More20-year Follow-up Study Shows Utahns with Autism Fare Better in Their Lives Than Many Others with the Disorder
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Twenty years after first being assessed in a long-term autism study, 41 Utahns with the disorder had a higher social outcome than those in similar studies, University of Utah psychiatry researchers have reported in the Journal of Autism Research online.
Read MoreU Graduates More Than 7,300 Students
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This morning, the University of Utah graduated 7,332 students from 73 countries, 50 U.S. states and 26 of Utah’s 29 counties. University President Michael K. Young officiated at the commencement ceremony, held in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
Read MoreProgress Against Sarcoma
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University of Utah geneticists have engineered mice that can develop synovial sarcoma – a significant early step toward developing new treatments for the aggressive, deadly cancer that most often kills teenagers and young adults.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah Medical School Researchers Receive Nearly $3 Million in Grants to Study Diabetes Complications
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A protein that promotes nerve and blood vessel growth will be tested in mice as part of $2.7 million in grants University of Utah School of Medicine researchers just received to study diabetes.
Read MoreBy Silencing Gene in Worm, Researchers Identify Role in Age-Old Mystery of Regeneration
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Researchers at the University of Utah have discovered that when a gene called smedwi-2 is silenced in the adult stem cells of planarians, the quarter-inch long worm is unable to carry out a biological process that has mystified scientists for centuries: regeneration.
Read MoreTrustees Approve Honorary Degree Recipients and Commencement Speaker
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Today, the University of Utah Board of Trustees approved honorary doctoral degrees for six individuals, which will be presented at this year’s commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 6, 2005, in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. The degrees, awarded to individuals who merit special recognition for service or achievement, will be presented to Robert F. Bennett for Doctor of Laws; Edwin E. Catmull for Doctor of Engineering; Katherine W. Dumke for Doctor of Humane Letters; C.A. “Arnie” Ferrin for Doctor of Humane Letters; Marta Sutton Weeks for Doctor of Humane Letters; and to this year’s commencement speaker, The Most Reverend George H. Niederauer, for Doctor of Humane Letters.
Read MoreGrant Boosts U College of Nursing’s Diversity Efforts
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The University of Utah College of Nursing’s efforts to help diversify the nursing workforce got a boost recently with a $736,831 grant for its Diversity Recruitment, Retention, and Leadership Development program.
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